i just finished Billionaire Wilderness by Justin Farrell, which is a fantastic ethnographic study of income inequality in Wyoming, and there are some incredible quotes from rich people in there. just a perfect demonstration of how having too much $ exacts an intellectual toll
these quotes are incredible because they presume that there's a direct correlation between "hard work" & net worth but like, all the working-class people in the area work a shit ton. the billionaires are the ones who go skiing all the time
Jul 11, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
This 2002 book about white-collar work in Silicon Valley is eerily insightful on modern-day labour issues
(Down & Out in Silicon Valley)
this is exactly why we need a maximum wage
Sep 17, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
some grim monday morning news: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is buying Time magazine for $190m
this ties together various things i've been thinking about lately: digital advertising & journalism; rent extraction on the internet; intellectual property; & entrepreneurship.
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this isn't an isolated thing. the backdrop is important: 5 years ago, Bezos bought the Washington Post; the year before that, Chris Hughes of FB bought The New Republic.
rather than going into the merits (or otherwise) of Benioff as an individual, we need a structural analysis
this is exactly why we need a maximum wage 
